Here's My Resolution

{I will give some serious brownie points to whomever knows what that post title is from...no hint}
{Oh, and as usual, Sisters: you cannot answer :) }

New Years New Years New Years.

I have mixed feelings about the whole New Year's Resolution thing. I am all for making promises to yourself in order to better yourself. I think you (me, everyone) should always try to become a better (for lack of a better word) person. And this includes having those wonderful people in your life who act as "accountability" people. In my case, I am lucky to have Stephen, my mom and sisters, and a couple very special friends who love me enough to give me this constructive criticism.

However, I have never been one of those "My diet starts tomorrow/Monday" types. If I want to change something/start something, I try to do it that day. Immediately. Even though I know the "wait till ___" sentiment usually applies to diets, I never understood waiting until a certain day...why not today? ANYWAY back to the point.

I DO make New Years Resolutions. And this year, I think they can all be summed up as this:

2009 shall henceforth be known as the year I

"get my STUFF together"

{there is no cursing on this blog, but you get the point}

• Those close to me know that one of my biggest complaints (and I hate...ehhem...dislike complain-y people) is that I just don't have enough time in the day. Our last book we read in bible study was The Prayer of Jabez. I really loved that book! One of the chapters really spoke to me. I have prayed and prayed for the ability to better handle all the different tasks in my life. Some are a given, many I place on myself. I love having my plate full. But it can be overwhelming, and disappointing, when I can't get everything done in the time frame I want to. It was such a revelation to realize that: I have been praying and praying for God to make my day longer...to give me that 25th hour. And he did. A couple months ago (see, couldn't wait till New Years) I started waking up at 6:30am. An hour or more before Bennett usually wakes up. WOW what a difference. I get my quiet time in the Word (which I admit I was having extreme trouble fitting in previously), time to eat breakfast, check work and personal emails, get Bennett's breakfast ready, make the bed, possibly take a shower (even though I usually wait until his morning nap to do that), and just get my stuff together.

• Get back in the kitchen. This one started today.
  

  I used to cook...all the time. Every night of the week, and sometimes on weekends. Then I became 6 months pregnant and decided I didn't feel like cooking. The sofa felt much better to me. This feeling stayed with me until, um, well now. I cook, but maybe once a week. And to clarify, cooking to me in this instance means with a recipe and I went to the store and bought stuff for it. Not let me see what I can make from the smorgasbord of oddities in our pantry. Or Stephen you eat a pb&j or a whole box of Family sized reduced fat Wheat Thins and I will have a Lean Cuisine (Spa Cuisine Twice the Veggies) or a bowl of soup.

• Work Out (more). I started working out when I was 15...I think it was for my birthday that I got a membership to the gym my parents went to. They would take me when they went (which used to be about 4 days a week!). I loved it. I worked out bc I loved it, it made me feel good, and it was good for me. When I felt under the weather, my dad always told me "go work out and you will feel better." Even though it may have been the last thing I wanted to do, I would always go and feel 110% better. This drive stuck with me and I continued to work out, at a gym, until I moved back to Mobile. I was a member of a gym in Mobile, but I hardly ever went. Then, I joined a different gym at the beginning of 2004 and decided to start working out more. And I did. Until I became 6 months pregnant. (Lots of things seemed to end at that point?!?!) I didn't start back working out anything until this September, when I started this Resolution. Yoga every Monday after I drop off Bennett at MDO. And now, starting NOW, I shall go more than just this once. And I will start running again. (Only this time I will have special cargo in tow...or in push)

• Organize all my work/bills/stuff. Ok thats no fun...moving on

• Stop more often and SMELL THE ROSES
  

• Seven inches later :: New Year, New DO!

{Yeah...self portrait 'a la camera phone...my apologies}

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And now, completely unrelated, here is yet another "$10,000 and a New Cadillac" question:

Looksie who I found as an extra in the movie "You've Got Mail"

Name her and you shall receive your own happy pat on the back, and the respect of many

{Sisters, you MAY participate in this}

OH and for fun dont look at the comments before you think about your guess. I bet it is easy to place, but I was tickled when I saw it - she is on there for a split second and I had to rewind (God bless the DVR) and get a good laugh out of it.